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re: The River - Spoilers Welcome

Posted by: garyd 04:34 pm EST 11/18/14
In reply to: re: The River - Spoilers Welcome - jessied44 02:58 pm EST 11/18/14
Yes, I agree Hughes should be taken into account. As you say the play is esoteric and, as others have noted, elliptical. Overly so I think. I enjoy a good intellectual work out as much as the next guy but I truly do not think I should need a graduate degree in English Literature in order to enjoy/understand an 85 minute piece of theatre and that is how I feel about this work. Yes, it was sort of fun to rummage through ancient lecture notes on Yeats,Hughes, Maud Gonne etc. but the play is so very obscure that I am afraid it comes across as pretentious. It does spark interesting conversation however and that is certainly not always the case.


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